10,000 Hours With A Rich Menace (Caselli Family, #1)

by Jahquel J.

It was always we had a fucking problem, and never Menace we got you a gift for being great.

“All you both do is talk about me… I’m so worried… he’s gonna die lonely… he’s too handsome, rich, funny, smart, and got a fire ass dick game to be lonely.”

Stevie was sent to kill me, and I was starting to think this shit was a scheme cooked up by Todd.

He pulled me back. “Wonder, you hate me?” “What? No… why would you say that?” “’Cause you trying to mess up my comfort,” he grumbled, as he lifted up and allowed me to slip out of the bed.

Her face was soaked as she stood there, kneeling down in front of me. “Maverick Kojack Caselli,” she started. I pulled away from her quickly. “Why the fuck do you keep making up names, Wanda? That ain’t even my middle name… I don’t have a middle name.”

She snorted while laughing through her tears, holding my face. “I want to make up names with you for the rest of my life. I want to love you and feel the love that you give me, Mitchell. I want to make your smoothies and separate your sauce from your chicken forever.” She kissed my lips as I pulled her into my arms and hugged her ass so tight.

“I’m not a man of a million words, but for you Wonder, I got two million. I love you so much that at night I think of how I’m gonna beat the shit out of the landscaper for the one time he winked at you three weeks ago. He had blue on that day, and you were wea⁠—” “Mens, nigga… focus?” Corleon whispered while trying to have a smile on his face.

“You told me that it had been a while since you felt warm and safe. Last time you felt like that was with your mother. As your husband, I promise to always make you feel warm and safe. I am your safe place, your home, and protector. For a while it has always been Menace, but I realized since you came into my life, there is no me without you. You are the missing puzzle. I love you, Stevie.”

“Allow me to show you how good it can get. How great we can be, and how happy you can be. I promise to never put sauce on your chicken or squeeze the toothpaste hard. I promise to never go to bed angry and allow you to sleep on me, no matter if you drool on me. I promise to give you my whole heart because I know you would never break it. I promise to love you as you, Mavie. Never change you because what fun would that be? I want the challenge, and baby you are that. I love you, Mitchell.” “I love you, Wanda.”

“Why are you asking him his favorite color?” “Small talk… rude as shit to just choke the man out and not make small talk… I’m a menace, not a monster.”

“When the fuck did you start smoking cigarettes?” Core asked, as he took a seat beside me while I sat in the backyard puffing on these Newport 100’s. I had my leg crossed, cigarette tucked between my fingers, and leaned over like a single mom trying to do her best, but life kept bringing her back down. “She got me fucked up, Bruster… she gonna sneak her ass out the house last night.” “How the fuck she sneak out without you knowing?” I turned to look at him, mad that I allowed pussy to put me out like that. “Ask Duke’s fat ass… you think I should kill him?” Corleon had the nerve to laugh at my pain. “Ain’t you adopted?”

He continued to laugh. “And your wife fucking escaped you…how she got your security wrapped around her finger?” I took a long pull of the cigarette and flicked the ashes away before stabbing the shit in my leg. “Mens, what the fuck?”

“She don’t like that me and Angelica still talk every now and then.” “I mean, she’s your wife so why the fuck would she like that? I don’t know why you keep in touch when Jeffie doesn’t deal with her own mother.” “I should kill Angelica, right?” Corleon put his head in his hand. “What the fuck?” “My boo don’t like her calling me so, ending...

I lit another cigarette and waited for her to speak. “It’s always Menace you have gone too far, never you are the best and we love you.” “You got her arrested and reported her ring stolen you fucking nut!” Jeffie mushed me, and I continued to puff on my cigarette while Corleon was holding his stomach while laughing. “Why the fuck are you laughing, she called me crying because she thought she was going to prison…. I had to send over your marriage certificate and have Zoya go get her out and let them know it was a misunderstanding.”

“She ran off in the middle of the night with my ring and pussy, Jeffie. You lucky I wasn’t able to report my pussy missing because I would have.” I went to take a pull of my cigarette, and Jeffie snatched it and dramatically stomped it into the ground.

“With the way she spitefully squeezed the toothpaste in the bathroom before she left, she deserves prison.” I went to pull another cigarette, and she snatched the box from me. “I’m going to see her… this is not how you treat your wife, Menace!”

Corleon shoved me. “Baby, I don’t think shit he doing is funny,” he called behind Jeffie, and she spun on her heels, sticking her middle finger at him. “Got me in fucking trouble with both of them. Why the fuck would you report her ring stolen?” “Shit, I thought I lost it. It’s two million dollars, so I needed to make sure that it wasn’t missing.” Corleon busted out laughing as I picked up the marker beside me and started to smoke it since Jeffie wanted to snatch my carton of cigarettes. “Mens you really need to apologize to her. You do know that you made it ten times worse?” “We’ll fix that shit when she bring her ass home.” Corleon looked at me. “She not going to come home after you got her locked up, Nutty. How you gonna be mad because she left you where you had her fucked up at?” I took a pull of my marker, blowing imaginary smoke. “She went through my phone and got mad because I told her the truth.”

He walked back toward the house leaving me and my marker. “I see why they gave yo’ ass up for adoption, bitch.”

“That’s why yo’ weird ass didn’t have friends back in school.”

“I ain’t shaking my wife robbing me blind and then leaving me.” “Now how the fuck she robbed you blind?” I smirked. Wonder robbed me when she took my pussy away from me and didn’t tell me. I had business to handle, and then I was going to pull up on wifey.

“He got me arrested because of a stolen ring and then had the nerve to send flowers to the apartment telling me to bring me and my pussy home. I’m not going back home because he’s a fucking lunatic.”

Pulling the covers over my head, I tossed and turned a bit before I sat up in the bed and started sniffing. “Why does it smell like cigarettes in here?” “’Cause you got me smoking them,” I heard a low creepy voice and jumped out of bed screaming. “Skylerrrrrrrrrrrr!” I hollered while trying to dodge the mess on my floor and make it to the light to turn it on. The door came busting open and Skyler had a gun in her hand. “What? What happened?” she aimed her gun while I ran out the room. “There’s someone in my fucking room… they are smoking cigarettes.”

I nearly passed out when Menace slid from underneath the bed with a cigarette tucked between his lips. “MAVERICK!” I screamed. “What up, Boo?” Skyler put her gun down and took a deep breath. “I don’t even know what to say. Why in the hell are you in our apartment?” “Your apartment… she owns a home with her husband that she told she wanted a divorce.” “I never said that.”

“To bring you home.” “I’m not going home with you. Did you tell Duke that you are here?” He laughed. “He helped you sneak out and helped me sneak in here.” I folded my arms. “That traitor.” “He loyal to the family and you are the family. Come home with me, Wonder. I fucking miss you.” I put my glasses down and picked up my Telfar bag that I started to paint and had given up sometime last year. Wrapping the straps around my hand, I beat him with the bag as he held his arms up.

“You got me fucking arrested, Maverick! Do you think I want to go home with you?” I slapped him once more with the bag.